Capacity Building Educational Program for Preceptors: Supporting medical students’ clinical experiences
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The Department of Public Health at the University of Patras, represented by Professor Apostolos Vantarakis and Dr. Spyros Papaioannou, participates as a partner in the Capacity Building Educational Program for Preceptors: Supporting Medical Students’ Clinical Experiences (CaP4Preceptors) project. This initiative, running from 01.11.2023 to 31.10.2026, brings together institutions from Jordan and Europe to enhance the educational and mentoring skills of clinical preceptors in Jordanian hospitals.
Acronym: CaP4Preceptors
Project website: https://hu.edu.jo/cap4preceptors/
Project duration: 01.11.2023 – 31.10.2026
Partners:
- The Hashemite University
- The University of Jordan
- Jordan University of Science and Technology
- Mutah University
- Yarmouk University
- AL-Balqa Applied University
- University of Patras
- Universidade do Minho
This project aims at building the capacity of clinical preceptors who work in the Educational Hospitals in Jordan. Specifically, the current project aims at designing and implementing an educational professional training program to enhance clinical preceptors’ teaching and mentoring skills, based on their educational needs.
Clinical preceptors are physicians from different specialties working in hospitals and supervising medical students during their internships. Ideally, clinical preceptors should possess both clinical and educational skills because they serve as educators, mentors, and role models for medical students to help them develop the knowledge and skills necessary to practice competently in the medical field. In Jordan, clinical preceptors do not receive any professional training in educational skills. The lack of preceptor readiness causes difficulties in performing their educational role and affects the quality of medical students’ clinical experience.
Through international cooperation, partnership, and exchange of good practices among six Jordanian, two European higher education institutions in the field of medical education, and the Ministry of Health, an educational training program to build the capacity of clinical preceptors as educators will be designed and implemented.
It is expected that the project will produce: i) A professional development program to enhance preceptors’ educational skills; ii) More than 95 qualified medical professors as trainers for preceptors; iii) More than 120 qualified preceptors supervising medical students during their internship; iv) Quality educational experience for medical students v) Medical graduates possessing professional competencies and employability potential in Jordan and globally.